Viewer
The BluePrint Viewer shows relationships between items in a BluePrint hierarchy
The BluePrint Viewer provides a visualization of the Parent-Child relationships within a BluePrint and the BluePrint relationship between items:
This dialog has a number of areas:
- The Home tab lets you perform actions on a selected item in the BluePrint hierarchy diagram
- The View tab lets you change the view of BluePrint relationships
- The BluePrint hierarchy diagram displayed in the BluePrint Viewer and the information displayed in it.
To exit the BluePrint Viewer, click Close.
- Home tab
The Home tab lets you perform the following actions on the selected item:
- Open allows you to navigate to open an item displayed in the BluePrint hierarchy for editing.
- Where Used allows you to see where an item is used.
- Delete allows you to delete an item provided you have the necessary rights and permissions for that item and the item is not being used.
- Preview lets you preview the item in a separate dialog.
- Compare allows you to compare two different versions of Components, Component Templates, Page Templates, Pages, or Schemas.
- History lists all versions of the Component or Page.
- Localize lets you localize the Component or Page.
- Unlocalize lets you unlocalize the Component or Page.
- View tab
Use the Zoom In and Zoom Out controls in the View tab to zoom in and out in the diagram. In addition, you have the following options in this tab:
- Show Parents
- select an item/Publication and click Show Parents to highlight the selected Publication's Parents (the Publications that are not Parents of the selected Publication are dimmed).
- Show Children
- select an item/Publication and click Show Children to highlight the selected Publication's Children (the Publications that are not Children of the selected Publication are dimmed).
- Show Used in
- click Show Used in to view the items the item is Used in
- Show Inheritance Path
- select an item and click Show Inheritance Path to highlight where the item shares its content from.
- Content area
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The BluePrint hierarchy diagram displayed in the BluePrint Viewer uses the following visual indicators:
- A solid blue background indicates the Publication from which BluePrint Viewer was invoked:
- A blue border indicates the current item (the context item) selected in the BluePrint:
- Information about the item from which the BluePrint Viewer was invoked (the context item) and the currently selected context item is displayed at the bottom of the viewer:
- The name of shared items are displayed in italics:
- Publications which do not contain a copy of the selected item are dimmed:
- If an item has been localized in a Child Publication, the line to the Parent Publication is dotted:
- A solid blue background indicates the Publication from which BluePrint Viewer was invoked: